California commercial salmon fishing will not happen for the third year in a row. The Pacific Fishery Management Council voted to close commercial salmon season for the remainder of the year on ...

Adult fall-run Chinook salmon congregate near the Nimbus Hatchery Fish Ladder on the American River in Sacramento County in this October 2012 file photo. (Photo by Carl Costas/California Department of ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) — The council overseeing U.S. Pacific coast fisheries issued a new recommendation Tuesday for “very limited” recreational salmon fishing through the end of 2025, according to the ...

Recreational salmon fishing will be available in 2025. It's been three years since the last recreational salmon fishing season. Fishermen will have at least two chances to fish California's coastlines ...

The 2025 commercial salmon fishing season in California will be closed for an unprecedented third year running, and sportfishing will be restricted to only a few days due to dwindling numbers of fish, ...

NOAA Fisheries will close or constrain fishing for salmon off the southern Oregon and California coasts for the 2025-26 fishing season, citing “anticipated extremely low returns of California Chinook ...

Commercial salmon trawlers may be allowed to harvest fish in California for the first time in more than three years, although ...

William Smith has long fished the California coast for salmon, taking avid anglers out on his boat in hopes they'll get to wrestle with and reel in the prized catch. But not anymore. Smith, known as ...

The Pacific Fishery Management Council, a multistate, quasi-federal body, is expected to decide in April after a series of meetings whether there will be a limited fishing season or none at all. LOS ...

Drought and water contracts diverted river flows, killing 75% of 2021 salmon eggs Overestimated ocean counts led to 2022 harvests that removed 75% of stocks Infrastructure failures and pollution in ...

The announcement by the Pacific Fishery Management Council also announced that recreational ocean salmon fishing will be “extremely limited,” but allowed for the first time since 2022. The PFMC ...